DORM LOGS: Now with EVENTS!

[raw_angel_power]

Who: All of Smash.
What: Dorm log! January edition.
Where: Student and Teacher dorms, and quite possibly beyond campus.
When: Approximately the latter half of January to the earliest of Februaries (15th - 5th)
Warnings: YOU KNOW YOURSELVES

We all know our characters experience downtime after classes and their busy schedules, and this is a good venue for those kinds of miscellaneous dorm-shenanigans to take place. Not only does it give your characters the easy chance to meet new people in a laid-back environment, but it's a good mechanism for strengthening CR. It's easy!

Feel free to begin in any way you please! Plan with (a) fellow player(s) if you'd like! Or, set up a thread and wait for characters to bite! Just add a thread with the room number (and date/time, if it matters) and the characters that reside there (just for reference!). You do not have to use one character's thread as a dual-purpose for both characters if you do not want to. Doesn't have to be a dorm room, either, if you have something else in mind. It could be the common room or the student science lab or wherever.

BUT WAIT!!!!!!

This time, we're shaking things up. On certain days, there will be an event going on that might help if you can't think of a good scenario to kick off a thread with. Here is the list!*

1/18: Hypno's Naptime. Much like the anime episode of the same name, there are mysterious sleep waves pulsing through town. No one is sure where they're coming from- it could be a rowdy Hypno that took over a broadcasting station one day, or maybe it's the local Disco Drowzee club that opened up just recently and their collective moves are enough to make you snooze. Well, these sleep waves might make you catch onto some unexpected z's, but more likely they can give you strange effects. Don't limit it to thinking you're a Pokemon, either. They can trick you into believing you're something else entirely, or just give you the urge to slip on a chicken costume and table dance in front of a crowd without finding it socially inappropriate. Just. WEIRD STUFF, MAN. Anything is possible.
1/19 - 1/25: Nancy's going on vacation. That's right, you sorry saps aren't gonna know what to do with yourselves now that no one's cooking for you. There was gonna be a substitute lunch bear/lady/alien space creature, but for whatever reason, they never showed up. So now, everyone must FEND FOR THEMSELVES. How will you fare if you don't even know how to flip a spatula?
1/25 - 1/27: Ice Cream Blizzard. Oh, you poor, starving Smashers. Not only are you bereft of nutrition, but it's cold and snowing and you can barely get out of the building without freezing solid! You might just perish, but wait- if you step outside and try to catch snowflakes with your tongue, you might just realize that it's... snowing ICE CREAM?!
1/29-1/31: Goomba Infestation. Everything is Goombas for 2 days in the boys dorms. Bowser is dicking around with "Itchymarbles" again, and it just spills out across the entire dorms. This prank has the unfortunate side effect of, well, affecting everyone on campus, and not just Scratchy McMarbles, so you might wanna be careful opening that fridge, since the wrong kinds of mushrooms might start pouring out. Jumping on them might work, but it's gonna take a lot of hopscotch to decimate an entire roomful!

This is a bit of an experiment, so... we'll see what comes of this.

*Note: These were determined by rng. Any other suggestions will be recycled for next time if the event aspect is successful.

Also, if you want easy access to the dorm living arrangements, here is the link.

Comments

In his and Goombella's apartment, also generally around campus.

[monotreme_101]

1/29-1/31 - At some point he is going to pull out a cellphone and call Goombella. "Hey. Uh. Is there a family reunion goin' on that you didn't mention to me....?"

Jan 30

[cplusplus]

"Um, excuse me, so these really are someone's family visiting?" Chihiro asked when Knuckles was done calling Goombella.

[monotreme_101]

"Nope. Don't seem to be. My fiancée is a Goomba and I figured I'd ask her." he replied, seemingly not bothered by this unfamiliar Human listening in on his phone call.

"They botherin' you?" he asked. The guy (Girl? Humans could be so confusing. Huh. They looked a little like Alter Ego.) looked like they were probably pretty frail. Maybe they needed help?

[cplusplus]

He didn't seemed bothered that Chihiro had accidentally overheard the conversation, thank goodness. But, he mentally note to apologize regardless later on.

Chihiro nodded meekly and murmured, "my dorm room..."

Which by now has become nothing but infested with Goomba, the perks of living right next door to a certain 'Itchymarbles', really.

[monotreme_101]

Oh Ickymaboo, why you gotta be causing so much trouble for everyone? (Nah man just kidding. We're bros.)

"Alright. Well, bein' as they ain't my fiancée's friends or family, that pretty much means I can punch 'em if I gotta." he said with a chuckle. "Show me to your room, kid. I'll get 'em cleaned out for you."

[cplusplus]

"RIght, um, thanks...!" But then, he quietly added; "though, don't hurt them badly..."

With that, he guided the echidna to BE-12. And boy, was it greatly infested with Goombas.

[monotreme_101]

"Eh. Don't worry. I'm not about to hurt 'em real bad." Knuckles assured Chihiro.

Once at the dorm, he opened the door and walked in.

"HEY! Listen up, guys. You gotta get outta here. I'm gonna give you to the count of ten, alright? Ten.... Nine..."

But would his words have any effect?

[cplusplus]

Nope, not a single Goomba listened to him and just went on merry way of... crowding the room.

Chihiro on the other hand, could only gulp and brace for what's to come. Oh, he wish it wouldn't have to come to hurting other creatures.

[monotreme_101]

"...Two. One and a haaaaalf.... one and a quarterrrrrr.... Guys, you ain't doin' yourselves any favors here. ONE. One half..... A quarter. Still no-one's gonna leave? Really? OK, fine, Zero."

Knuckles rolled into a ball and bounced on the heads of a few to get to the window so he could open it and start chucking them out of it.

"You asked for it, fellas! Let's go!"

And so he started grabbing whichever ones were closest and shoving them out the open window to land in the snow outside.

[cplusplus]

Chihiro watched in amazement as the Goombas were thrown in such speed. Not long after, he was able to see a better look of his dorm room, in fact, he saw glimpse of the floor just now!

Then all was done and his room was now Goomba free, Chihiro stammered; "t-thank you for your help..."

[monotreme_101]

"Eh. No worries." Knuckles replied with a shrug. "Didn't take much time and it ain't like they're too tough."

He paused for a second. Well, it couldn't hurt to ask.

"You any relation to Alter Ego?"

[cplusplus]

"I'm the one who programmed him," he nodded. He was half surprise of himself how he had gotten used to that question, then again, Alter Ego was around while he was away.

"My name is Chihiro Fujisaki." Chihiro said with his lips curled into an awkward smile.

[monotreme_101]

"Daaaaang - No kiddin'?" Knuckles asked, a little awed. "Geeze. You must be some kinda genius or something. Alter Ego is a pretty great person. Chatted with 'em a couple times. Gotta say, I have a lot of respect for anyone who can create a whole new person. Digital or not."

Because Knuckles had come to know that there was really very little difference between an A.I. and.... well. Just an I.

During said phone call

[tattlemethis]

"No. And I have no idea what all the Goombas are doing here either! None of them wants to talk!"

[monotreme_101]

"You try talking to 'em in your Human form? Or in your Goomba form? Because I bet all the guys will talk to you if you're in your Goomba form." Because he knew all too well that a lot of Goomba guys liked to talk to Goombella in her Goomba form when they were in the Mushroom Kingdom.

[tattlemethis]

"I tried both! And still nothing! Which is weird, because I'm used to having at least a few Goomba guys at a time notice me in that form..."

[monotreme_101]

"I'm used to it too." And he didn't like it even a little bit. "So, if they ain't talkin' to you and they ain't talkin' to me.... uh... what do you figure is goin' on? You think it's that Bowser guy? I mean, he has an army of Goombas and Koopas and stuff, right? I don't see any turtles, though."

[tattlemethis]

"I don't know... It might be. I wouldn't put it past him! But they don't really seem like Bowser's troops, if that makes any sense."

[monotreme_101]

"I guess." he replied, watching one waddle off with someone's backpack.

"Uh. They seem to be causing a lot of problems for folks. I might wind up punching some of 'em. Just wanted to... y'know. Check with you and make sure that's not gonna be a problem. I mean, I know they're your people and everything but one just stole some kid's school bag. And I think another one is drawing crude graffiti on the hallway walls. Y'knbow. Stuff little kids shouldn't be lookin' at, probably."

Little kids still went to this school sometimes, right?

[tattlemethis]

"Knuckles, hon, I appreciate that you're trying to be sensitive to me. Thank you.

That being said, stomp those jerks."

[monotreme_101]

"Awesome. Just wanted to check.

I'm gonna go and pretty much do just that. Then, I'm gonna stop in at your favorite takeout place and pick some stuff up for dinner. So. Stay hungry, a'ight?"

[tattlemethis]

"Good luck, stay safe, and if you get a chance, can you pick up some eggs on the way home?"

[monotreme_101]

"Sure thing, babe. How we doin' for bread and milk? I guess while I'm there I might as well get some apples. You want any fruit? Oranges?"

[tattlemethis]

"Oranges would be great! You're running out of grapes too, better get some of those."

[monotreme_101]

"Oh, that so? I'll make sure to get 'em. Thanks for remindin' me.

See you soon, OK? Love you."